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Abstract
Can Poor Hydration Amongst Older Hospitalized People Be Identified By Single Point Total Body Water Assessment ? – A Pilot Study
Highlights
Dehydration in acute care is associated with increased morbidity and mortality
Total body water assessment by tracer dilution was compared with standard clinical assessment of hydration status
Clinical assessment indicated poorer hydration, participants were not confirmed with full dehydration as indicated by serum osmolality[7, 8]
Summary
Dehydration in acute care is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. no standard approach to hydration assessment exists in clinical settings. Implications for practice from this preliminary study indicate that findings did not support single point measurements of either total body water or percentage of body weight as water as potentially simple methods for clinically assessing hydration status amongst older hospitalised people. Poor hydration is associated with increased morbidity and mortality during acute hospital care and in long stay care units[1,2,3] Simple tools such as bioelectrical physical examination as previously described[4]. To explore the potential value of measuring total body water as a means to assess the hydration status of older people in a clinical setting, this pilot study investigated clinical hydration assessments against total body water status as evaluated by gold standard tracer dilution
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